The potential for his first in-game weather delay as Twins manager brought up a natural question for Paul Molitor on Tuesday afternoon.

Has he determined how long he would be willing to let a starter sit between pitches before letting the foul weather force him from the game?

“Not specifically,” Molitor said. “Has he thrown one inning or three innings? I’ve been around those situations a little bit, and I know that some people have a set time. If he goes out and warms up and comes in and the tarp comes on in the first inning — there’s always going to be variations on how you go forward with that.”

Molitor said he would lean heavily on Neil Allen, in his first year as a big-league pitching coach, should such a decision need to be made.

“To be honest, if I gave you a number (of minutes), I’d probably be throwing it out there a little bit foolishly,” Molitor said. “I know Neil’s had a lot more experience in dealing with time in terms of delays and where a pitcher is at in the game to determine whether he should or should not come back. Don’t want to hurt anybody, No. 1, right?”

Meyer, who hit 97 mph on his last strikeout of former big-league catcher J.P. Arencibia, allowed no base runners in a 13-pitch outing. The next hurdle for the 25-year-old prospect could be working back-to-back days.

“There aren’t any restrictions on him,” Ryan said. “I don’t know why he couldn’t do that. I doubt that he will the first crack through, but eventually that will have to be a piece to this thing. Hopefully he’ll end up having success and we can start thinking about exactly the direction we want to go.”

TWINS’ CONDOLENCES

Twins manager Paul Molitor offered condolences to the family of 15-year-old Zacharie Schaubhut, who died after being struck by a line drive over the weekend in a pickup baseball game in Bemidji, Minn.

Schaubhut, whose family had reportedly moved to Iowa last fall, was staying with his grandparents in Bemidji, where the young pitcher was hoping to make a summer league team.

“On behalf of the Twins, we’re aware of the incident,” Molitor said before Tuesday’s game against the Boston Red Sox. “Those things are very tragic to hear about. As an organization, we’re aware and our prayer and support goes out to the family. It’s kind of unfathomable for people that aren’t there to imagine what those people are going through.”

Schaubhut was transported to a hospital in Fargo, N.D., where he died.

The Twins held a moment of silence for Zacharie before Tuesday’s game, showing his photo on the video board.

BRIEFLY

The start of Tuesday’s game was delayed 81 minutes because of rain. It was the first weather delay at Target Field since last June 19 — two hours, six minutes against the Chicago White Sox — and the 15th since the stadium opened in 2010.

Hard-throwing reliever J.T. Chargois has been promoted to Double-A Chattanooga after posting a 2.40 earned-run average in 16 games (15 innings) for Class A Fort Myers. Chargois, a second-round pick out of Rice in 2012, missed the past two seasons with elbow problems, including Tommy John surgery in September 2013. His fastball has been clocked at 100 mph in the past.

Reliever Casey Fien (deltoid) made his first career start after 454 relief appearances as a professional. He worked a scoreless first on nine pitches (eight strikes) while one a rehab assignment for Triple-A Rochester at Durham on Tuesday. He is due to work again Wednesday and could rejoin the big-league club as soon as Friday.

Outfielder Oswaldo Arcia (hip flexor) went 0 for 3 with a sacrifice fly in his first rehab game for Rochester.

Former Twins closer Rick Aguilera and longtime East Coast scout John Wilson will represent the club June 8 at the first round of the first-year player draft in Secaucus, N.J. Aguilera still ranks second in Twins history with 254 saves. Only Joe Nathan (260) has more.

Despite a fast start, there was no love for the Twins in the first round of All-Star Game voting results. Forty-five position players hit the leaderboard for the American League, but none of them was a Twin. The only other AL club that failed to place at least one player among the early vote leaders was the Tampa Bay Rays, surprise leader of the AL East. This was the first of six AL voting updates for the July 14 All-Star Game, which will be played in Cincinnati.

Triple-A third baseman Deibinson Romero, who spent the past 10 seasons in the Twins’ minor league system, was sold to the Doosan Bears of the Korea Baseball Organization. Romero, who signed as a minor league free agent with the Pittsburgh Pirates this offseason, had to agree to the transaction.

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